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Paper, 'Of the eye sucker' by Henry Baker

Reference number: L&P/1/264

Date: 08 March 1743

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Contains two plates with four figures.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S. to the President, concerning a new discovered sea-insect, which he calls the eye-sucker'

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L&P/1/264
Earliest possible date
08 March 1743
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Baker

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Henry Baker, Paper, 'Of the eye sucker' by Henry Baker, 08 March 1743, L&P/1/264, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_264/paper-of-the-eye-sucker-by-henry-baker, accessed on 24 May 2025

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